Carpenter-painter

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Name vase of the carpenter-painter: young carpenter at work

The carpenter painter or carpenter painter , after English Carpenter Painter , was a Greek vase painter of the red-figure style , who towards the end of the 6th century BC. Chr. In Athens worked.

The carpenter-painter was one of the relatively early red-figure bowl painters . His creative period is around the last decade of the 6th century BC. B.C. or partly set a few years earlier. Its name has not been passed down, which is why John D. Beazley , who recognized and defined his artistic handwriting within the large body of ancient painted ceramics, has made it distinguishable with an emergency name . He received this emergency name after his name vase in the British Museum . It shows a young carpenter working on a wooden beam. It is one of the comparatively rare representations from the Greek world of work and the even rarer representation of craftsmen beyond potters, vase painters and metalworkers.

The style of the joiner-painter, like that of many bowl painters of the time, is not easy to grasp. Above all he is very close to the Salting Painter , the influence of Euthymides can be seen. As a means of distinguishing himself from other vase painters, observing the way he drew collarbones, chest muscles and nipples, turned the corners of his mouth downwards and drew long, slender hands and folds of clothing. What is striking, however, is his creativity, shown several times in the choice of images. For example, it shows a satyr playing lyre or a boar hunt. Beazley attributes a comparatively small number of vases to him. Two bowls and a hydria certainly appear to him . He moves another three bowls and a hydria into close stylistic proximity. In addition to the latter vases, there are also two bowls that must have been made in the Scythian's workshop , but not decorated by him, but by a painter with a stylistic proximity to the carpenter-painter. Another stylistically close shell should be set earlier than the others. Since Beazley's research, the body of the carpenter-painter's vases has been expanded somewhat. The Beazley Archive now lists 14 works by the painter or from his stylistic environment.

literature

  • John D. Beazley : Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1963², pp. 179-180.
  • John D. Beazley: Paralipomena. Additions to Attic black-figure vase-painters and to Attic red-figure vase-painters. 2nd edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1971, p. 339.
  • John Boardman : Red-Figure Vases from Athens. The archaic time (= cultural history of the ancient world . Volume 4). 4th edition. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-0234-7 , p. 70.

Web links

Commons : Carpenter Painter  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ inventory number E23; John D. Beazley: Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters. Oxford 1963², 179.1; Entry on the Beazley Archive website


personal data
SURNAME Carpenter-painter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carpenter painter; Carpenter painter; Carpenter painter; Carpenter painter; Carpenter painters; Carpenter Painter (English)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek vase painter of the red-figure style
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.